Bristol Traffic

In which we explore the options for getting round Bristol (*), and the consequences of those decisions. (*) Excluding Fishponds.

Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Selfishly holding up a Mercedes

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Shocking Footage of a Cyclist holding up an Important Person(tm) in a Mercedes not once, but twice. This is in Oakfield Road, Clifton, ...
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Saturday, 13 July 2013

BBC: welcome to the goldfish bowl

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A message hits the rarely-checked Bristol Traffic youtube inbox Can you get in touch? Hi there, I'm a journalist at the BBC, ...
Friday, 12 July 2013

This is a dead cycle lane. No its not, its a norwegian blue.

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One aspect of the Cycling City program was the way they used Showcase Bus Routes as part of the plan as you can see, it means that o...
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They have Roll to the Soul -and all we get is A34 Chievely Services

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Tax dodgers always complain that Britain has a car culture. Maybe -certainly it has dedicate "car roads", motorways and all the du...
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Friday, 5 July 2013

Love bristol go brent -issue 2

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More coverage of Brent, looking at anything we can learn from here First, look at how the council has taken a lane away from the road -the...
Thursday, 4 July 2013

H610GDY -not that discreetly texting

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Being a data driven organisation, we should set out collect some numbers on the percentage of drivers texting a lights -it seems high in the...

Keep the children out of our way: save felix road playground, Easton!

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In the posh parts of the city, the parents keep their children safe in the backgardens, with only trampoline-related injuries to fear (there...
Monday, 24 June 2013

How an RPZ is good for retail businesses

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Further up the A38 from Stokes Croft is Gloucester Road, where the local shopkeepers are up in arms about how an RPZ will hurt their busines...
Sunday, 23 June 2013

Is Rita's trying to go upmarket?

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Rita's has some new paintwork -maybe it is trying to look more sophisticated and appeal to a broader audience than minicab drivers. ...
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Saturday, 22 June 2013

A Community RPZ? In Montpelier? As if.

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In Montpelier today, Jon "ex-cllr" rogers is having some meetings proposing some community RPZ as opposed to an official one. Wh...
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Thursday, 20 June 2013

The Arley Hill Contraflow

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In our coverage of Cotham Brow yesterday , one Colin Hounslow, ‏ @crusherdrive , who appears to be an HGV driver @bristoltraffic noticed t...
Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Cotham Brow Row XM08XMJ

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The tax-dodger's rights group, Bristol Cycling Campaign, are campaigning against pinch points . We actually agree with them. Yes, we d...
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Saturday, 15 June 2013

Ant- RPZ myth: the paint makes a street look ugly

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If there is one anti-RPZ story we want everyone to avoid, it is "they make the streets look ugly" Look at this street in the Cot...
Friday, 14 June 2013

Anti-RPZ myth: an RPZ makes the school run harder

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With years of data, Bristol Traffic can go back in time and look at problems before the RPZ was rolled out -and compare it with today. This ...
Monday, 10 June 2013

RPZ myth: the RPZ devalues your home

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One of the funniest "residents parking ... " claims is that being in an RPZ devalues your house. As noted before, the RPZ lets y...
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Sunday, 9 June 2013

anti-RPZ myth: "no guarantee of parking"

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The other "say no to RPZ" myth is: there's no guarantee of parking even within an RPZ . Maybe, but here is Nugent Hill, and ...
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Saturday, 8 June 2013

RPZ: you aren't paying to park -you are buying the option to drive

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One recurrent theme repeated by the anti-RPZ people is that you will be "paying to park". These people are missing the point so ...
Friday, 7 June 2013

We support the RPZ plans for our business driving.

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A lot of claims are made about the "cost" of traffic jams, pricing driver's time above that of pedestrians and cyclists. While...
Thursday, 6 June 2013

Bristol doesn't have a congestion problem -it has a firstbus problem

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In April Tom-tom published a report saying Bristol had the worst congestion in the UK mainland . As Bristol's premiere traffic data c...
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Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Tax the cyclists for the sake of the important residents of Abbots Leigh

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There' s a big row going on -no, not the RPZ. Toll increases on the Clifton Suspension Bridge: from 50p to £1 This bridge has an essen...
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